Twitter Reacts To Colbert Replacing Letterman And It Ain’t Good

Colbert is a character actor. Not a Letterman host.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) April 10, 2014

CBS just hired a guy who is already on Late Night and regularly beaten by Adult Swim in viewers. This is about culture, not ratings.

— John Nolte (@NolteNC) April 10, 2014

Low-Rated Hyper-Partisan Lefty to Replace David Letterman http://t.co/Dd5N8j4LkF via @BreitbartNews

— John Nolte (@NolteNC) April 10, 2014

Leftist elites love Colbert. He gets fewer than a million viewers. #juggernaut

— John Nolte (@NolteNC) April 10, 2014

Can't wait for more Colbert "Ching Chong ding dong" jokes. Haha, just kidding! Or was I? Psych! I was totes being ironic. LOL. Not. /sarc

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 10, 2014

So, is it true that some anti-Asian racist is going to take over the late night show that everyone forgot was on the air?

— Bob Owens (@bob_owens) April 10, 2014

I shouldn’t say this out loud but I kind of judge people older than 23 or so who think Colbert/Stewart are funny/insightful

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) April 10, 2014

Will #Colbert's schtick of condescending fake news anchor work for an hour each night on network TV? He'll have to change, right? #Letterman

— RJ Moeller (@rjmoeller) April 10, 2014

Also find it weird that Jon Stewart wasn’t the more obvious pick. Unlike Colbert, Jon is not a character & does actual intvws. #LateShow

— Ben Howe (@BenHowe) April 10, 2014

Bad to worse. Complete lameness. RT @dsilverman: Re: Colbert replacing Letterman. Welp, that was fast.

— Melissa Clouthier (@MelissaTweets) April 10, 2014

What's funny is that Colbert's schtick is only funny when he can act a part to mock conservatives. Good luck, bro

— JustinGreen∞ (@JGreenDC) April 10, 2014

Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro was especially upset, rattling off three anti-Colbert tweets:

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Colbert? Really? Why not just wait until President Obama is out of office and hire him to replace Letterman directly?

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 10, 2014

So late night is now "Slow Jam With Obama" Fallon and "Reality Has A Well-Known Liberal Bias" Colbert. Spectacular. http://t.co/uiry895UM6

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 10, 2014

In search of an even more niche audience, CBS has now hired a Comedy Central host doing an impersonation of a Fox News personality.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 10, 2014